Anatomy Books

MrDarkPotato

Hi I am looking for some good anatomy books to improve my sculpting. Any recommendations?
I wanna buy  :

"Anatomy for 3D ArtistsThe Essential Guide for CG Professionals" by Legaspi Chris

Anyone read it ? What are your opinions on it? 

Cheers !!

JunkieKong

There are so many anatomy books out there it's hard to know where to start, but I haven't come across that particular book before.

My go-to book is this An Atlas of Anatomy for Artists - it's very old school and not instructional, I use it for reference because it's so in-depth.

A weirder one I picked up and sometimes use is an anatomy issue of the Imagine FX magazine - remember, lessons for drawing anatomy can usually be applied to 3D too. I think I like it because it does a good job of breaking down the body into basic shapes.

And lastly, I haven't bought it yet but I hear good things about Bridgman so I want to check out his book Constructive Anatomy.

Alex_J

The internet is like a book. Probably the best book ever. 

You can find dissection videos, ecorche's, anatomy instruction from top professionals...

sacboi

Yep, +1 fella's.

Also I've been a long time fan of Scott Eaton's work and his workshop is practically bursting at the seams with handy sculping/anatomy learning material so when you've spare time give them an eyeball or two as well.

http://www.scott-eaton.com/tutorials   

alexsir

Great recommendations.

I would recommend:

Eliot Goldfinger - Human Anatomy For Artists

Eliot Goldfinger - Animal Anatomy for Artists

Stephen Rogers Peck - Atlas of Human Anatomy For The Artist

Bridgman's Constructive Anatomy (1920) you can download for free.

Brian "Panda" Choi

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth from Andrew Loomis will probably be more useful to you then a straight to anatomy book.

There's a difference between drawing the overall figure well and being technical about muscle groups.  Seeing your work, you're gonna get more immediate mileage out of learning how to draw the figure.

It's about going from a big picture to the tinier details.

JordanN

It's not a book but have you seen carvuliero posts on Polycount? Anytime I see his posts, he gives a good run down on seeing shapes and analyzing correct character anatomy.

https://polycount.com/discussion/200681/learn-to-see-basic-drawing-and-warm-up-exercises